Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Snowy day at the White House, Washington, D.C

Snowy day at George Washington's estate, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Snow-topped covered bridge in Vermont

Snowy day at George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia

Snowy Rocky Mountain peak above Dillon, Colorado

Soldiers' Hut, Petersburg Battlefield, Virginia

Some of the homes in the Thimble Islands, off Branford, Connecticut, in Long Island Sound take up almost the entire island

South Beach Row, South Beach, Florida

Some of the palms in 29 Palms, California

Some of the patent medicines sold out of wagons that covered a 14-state territory around Abilene that can be viewed at the house of the purveyor, Alfred Seelye, in Abilene, Kansas

South end of the Golden Gate Bridge, above Fort Point, San Francisco, California

Some of the staff and vehicles at Mount Vernon, Virginia

South Haven South Pierhead Light is a lighthouse in Michigan

Southwest Harbor, Maine

Southern spring canopy of trees

Spaghetti-like intersections of highways outside Las Vegas, Nevada

Southwest Colorado landscape

South of Grand Junction, Colorado, the Gunnison River begins as a trickle, but downstream, it rages, forming deep canyons

Southwest desert scene

South Pierhead Lighthouse, known locally as "Big Red," Holland Harbor, Michigan

Split Rock Lighthouse and Foghorn, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Sponge boat, Tarpon Springs, Florida

Spectacular Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

Split Rock Lighthouse, one of Minnesota's best known landmarks, is located in Two Harbors, Minnesota

Spring amid the Sahuaros, Arizona

Spring at the Old Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C

Spring at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Springtime view of the Smithsonian Institution Castle 17558v

Springtime view of the Smithsonian Institution Castle 17559v

Springtime view of the Smithsonian Institution Castle, 17560v

Spring in Newport, Rhode Island

Springer Mountain, Georgia, the beginning of the Appalachian Trail

Springtime view of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Springtime in Natchez, Mississippi

Spring in the Badlands, South Dakota

St. Charles River view of Boston, Massachusetts

Spring tulips and dogwoods on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, McLean, Virginia

Springtime view of the Smithsonian Institution "Castle," the museum complex's first building when it was simply called the "National Museum." Washington, D.C

St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.

Spring day at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

St. Croix river boat houses in Minnesota

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral in "Western Addition," San Francisco, California

St. James Hotel, Red Wing, Minnesota

St. Philomena Roman Catholic Church, Father Damien, Hawaii

Staff of Sylvia's, a legendary soul-food restaurant in Harlem, New York

Staff on break at the Tadich Grill in San Francisco, California

St. Paul, Minnesota during the Ice Festival

Stable converted into an artist's home at an artists' colony in Lyme, Connecticut

St. Marks Light, at the mouth of the St. Marks River in the Apalachee Bay on Florida's panhandle

St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana

St. Patrick's Church is the oldest parish in the Federal City of Washington, D.C

Staff of Washington's Willard Hotel shortly after it reopened following a wholesale renovation. Washington, D.C

St. John's Church, Washington, D.C

Stained glass window in the Guardian Angel Cathedral, Las Vegas, Nevada

Stained glass in the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Stained glass windows in St. Dominic Church in southwest Washington, D.C

Stain glass in a church in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C

Stained-glass window at the 1923 Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York

Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Church in southwest Washington, D.C